Friday, January 27, 2012

Love is the Greatest

     If I could speak all the languages on earth and of the angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I had the gift of prophecy, enough faith to move mountains and  understood all of God's secret plans, but didn't love others, I would be nothing.  If I gave everything I had to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
     Love is patient and kind.  Love is not jealous, boastful, proud or rude.  It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being right or wrong.  It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.  Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
     Prophecy, speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless; but love will last forever!
     Three things will last forever--faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love.  (1 Corinthians 13: 1-8,13/NLT)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Be Still...


 Be Still and Know That I am God

I feel like I’m in a place and space all by myself,
but I am fine in my mind, because it is
where God would have me to be.

I am yearning; the fire is burning;
the wheels of life are turning, but God.

Be still and know that I am God.

The tears are falling, the Lord is calling –   
come My way, come My way.

My soul wanders; my soul wonders,
be still and know that I am God.

Time and season; rhyme and reason,
be still and know that I am God.

Born a child; born a boy; born a girl,
Jesus is the Light of the world.

                                 I Believe
                                                                                    To God Be The Glory
                                                                                    January 31, 2011

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Don't Judge

People are all different which is good because variety is the spice of life.  We have a right to have a difference of opinion, and nobody has to be right or wrong.  We just agree to disagree.

Don't look at a person and think you know them.  We are all like onions.  We have a lot of  layers to peel away, and under each one is a different and unique experience.

How can anyone decide why a person acts a certain way when they haven't walked in their shoes.

We want what others have, but are we willing to sacrifice what they did to get it?

Don't judge me because I have to enforce the rules on my job.  The working me is just one part of a multi-faceted, very complex individual.

How can you just look at me and decide you hate me?  To know me is to love me!

"Don't speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters.  If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God's law.  But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you.  God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge.  He alone has the power to save or to destroy.  So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?" (James 4:11-12/NLT)

Sunday, January 22, 2012

How to Overcome Today!

 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out His commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep His commands. And His commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. (1John 5:1-5 NIV)

Now is the time to come to Jesus.  If you don't come to Him, He will eventually come to you.  It is always easier to volunteer to do something rather than to do it out of desperation.  Jesus is a gentleman, and would never force anyone to accept Him.  But as sure as the sun will shine, turmoil happens in our lives that sends us desperately seeking Jesus.  It happened to me.  It will happen to you.  Come to Jesus on your own while all is well so He can keep you through life's storms.  NOW is the time!